In May 2020, UNICEF Morocco released an update on the situation of children in Morocco. This report is not only interesting in terms of its content but also in terms of its structure. Although focused on Morocco, the advice can be applied to other contexts, as can the...
Latin America’s Water Pollution Crisis and its Effects on Children’s Health
Contemporary environmental crises such climate change, soil and water pollution, and the wide-scale loss of biodiversity contribute to 26% of annual deaths for children aged 5 and under, which amounts to approximately 1.5 million deaths every year, and two-thirds of...
Amazon Rainforest and Rights under Threat
Amidst the global climate emergency, the Amazon rainforest is under imminent and intensifying threat. Unprecedented destruction of the rainforest since Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency is set to escalate even further this year, and with it the erosion of countless...
Humanium Signs Joint-Call to the HRC on Child Environmental Rights
Humanium has signed a Joint Call to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on its Annual Full-Day Meeting on the Rights of the Child. The Annual Day, which took place on 1 July 2020, focused on realizing children’s rights through a healthy environment. Humanium...
Social Distancing and Hand-Washing: A fantasy in a refugee camp?
The impact of coronavirus on the living conditions of refugee children What’s happening – in numbers? Of the 71 million refugees across the world, more than 80% live in developing areas without basic health services, begging the question of how to keep refugees safe...
Canada’s Indigenous Children
Canada is a many-faceted country and the diversity of its indigenous peoples is one of its riches. But talking about Canada’s indigenous children can be complicated, in particular because the range of situations they experience makes it difficult to generalise....
Domestic Violence and its Consequences on Children
With the lockdown of millions of families, many children found themselves stuck at home with violent parents without the opportunity to ask for help. The isolation and the stressful atmosphere of the pandemic sometimes acted as a catalyser and some parents who usually...
Indonesian Children at Risk of Air Pollution
Clean air is an environmental right and every child has the right to enjoy a safe, healthy and sustainable environment. Therefore, every country must protect the environmental rights of its citizens, and Indonesia is one of the countries that has formally accepted the...
Child Labor in India
What is the first thing you think about when someone mentions India? The beauty of Indian culture, food, history, environment? Or do you perhaps think of air pollution, overpopulation and poverty faced by many Indians? India is definitely a place that produces mixed...
Guidance: How to bring a case before the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Whatever problems your child may face, they have rights and those rights are protected at the international level by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee on the Rights of the Child is a body of experts tasked with overseeing the implementation of...









